How to Create a Customized Date Button for WordPress

When making your blog stand out, one thing that bloggers often ignore is the date button. Something as simple as a customized date button can really make a difference in your blog’s design. Therefore in this article we will show you how you can create a customized date button for WordPress.

We will start out from the image shown in the left, and will make it look like the one in the right.

You can use the image that we are using above if you so desire for your use, or create your own one.

First thing you need to do is open your style.css file and add something like below:

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iamskyemedia

This tutorial is just what I was looking for but my background picture won’t show up in the blog. I am not sure what I’m doing wrong. The margins and such have been added but that picture won’t show up. Is there a key to that?

http://www.allenvarney.com Allen Varney

The custom button looks like nothing but a patch of overlapping gray rectangles in Firefox 3.0.11. I had to look at the page in IE to see what you meant. Perhaps we need a blog entry on checking your CSS in different browsers.

http://www.wpbeginner.com Editorial Staff

If you just copied and pasted the codes, then you obviously didn’t read the article. No where in there, we have set the paddings, margins, or any other styling. The ones there were just basis. No styling was done. But if you mean that our site is having issues in browsers, please send us a screenshot last time we checked, this site was cross-browser compatible.

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